rosanicus | Entries tagged with challenge: whumptober

No. 29: FATIGUE

Labyrinth | Burnout | "Who said you could rest?"

~300 words, Steeley & Tubby, Murder by Air

Feeling thoroughly worn out, I flopped down in a chair, put my feet up in another and went fast asleep. The last thing I remember was Brian doing the same thing while Steeley paced impatiently up and down smoking a cigarette.

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No. 22: BLEEDING THROUGH BANDAGES
Tourniquet | Reopening Wounds | "Oh that's not good."

266 words (a Biggle! Unintentional but I'm claiming it), Algy & Mohamad Khan, Terai-fic

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Okay so this one is just fully a Biggles The Thing AU. Given that The Thing (1982) is one of my favourite films of all time this seemed sort of inevitable.

Warning for implied major character death (both during the story and... let's say imminently following the story.)

No. 21: BODY HORROR
Body Horror | Tattoo Gun | Spirit Possession | “Let the bedsheet soak up the tears.” (Apparat feat. Soap & Skin, Goodbye)

300 words, Algy, nebulous point in canon

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No. 14: LEFT FOR DEAD
Hunting Gear | Blackmail | “Because I want you to know what it feels like to be haunted” (tiLLie, kooL aiD mAn)

375 words, Steeley/Tubby(/Virginia) (implied) + Count Cortusoides, Murder by Air

( CW Period-typical homophobia )

Starting to catch up after a crazy week at work! Parent's evening is TOUGH.

No. 17: NOWHERE ELSE TO GO
Ruined Map | Shipwrecked | "We had a good run."

340 words, EvS + Frau Lowenhardt + Fritz, late 1940s

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No. 9: OBSESSION
Broken Window | Bruises | “Frame me up on the wall, just to keep me out of trouble.” (Fall Out Boy, Irresistible)

Catching up on missed prompts by, um, missing the new ones... this will definitely work out in the end. Today's prompts are almost too delicious and require more brain than I have this week (six hours of parent's evening incoming...).

430 words, Worrals & Frecks, somewhere in the WW2 era

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No. 13: TEAM AS A FAMILY
Familial Curse | Multiple Whumpees | "Death will do us part." (Set It Off, Partner's In Crime)

This is quite a loose interpretation of the prompt. I will defend it to the death.

620 words, Biggles & Algy, WW1

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No. 12: STARVATION
Underground Caverns | Cannibalism | "Just a little more."

582 words, EvS, immediately post-Hatchet

( TW for disordered eating )

No. 10: BLOW TO THE HEAD
Slurred Words | Passing Out from Pain | "I can't think straight."

328 words, Bertie, coda to Dark Intruder

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No. 8: SLEEP DEPRIVATION
Isolation Chamber | Forced to Stay Awake | "Leave the lights on." (Coldplay, Midnight)

245 words, Dickpa/Malty (implied), Hits the Trail

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No. 7: ONLY FOR EMERGENCIES
Unconventional Weapon | Magic with a Cost | "It's us or them."

248 words, Ginger & the 666, WW2-era

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No. 6: NOT REALISING THEY'RE INJURED
Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms | Healed Wrong | "It's not my blood."

426 words, Algy & Biggles, WW1

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No. 5: SUNBURN
Healing Salve | Heatstroke | "If my pain will stretch that far." (Lottery Winners, Burning House)

272 words, Worrals/Frecks (implied), post-war

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No. 4: HALLUCINATIONS
Hypnosis | Sensory Deprivation | “You're still alive in my head.” (Billy Lockett, More)

Having read

philomytha's excellent Whumptober fic for today, I was inspired to pen a short sequel to a fic of my own involving EvS and brainwashing!

500 words, EvS & Biggles, set post-chose wrong

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No. 3: SET UP FOR FAILURE
Fingerprints | Wrongfully Arrested | "I warned you."

291 words, Biggles & Algy (with mentions of von Stalhein), pre-Hatchet

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No. 2: TRUST ISSUES
Amusement Park | Role Reversal | “You got away with the crime while the knife's in my back.” (Charlotte Sands, Rollercoaster)
ALTERNATIVE: Finding Old Messages

I wish I knew where this came from or where it was going but I enjoyed writing a little bit of melancholy spookiness for early October!

531 words, Ginger, post-Black Peril

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No. 1: RACE AGAINST THE CLOCK
Search Party | Panic Attack | "If only we could hold on.” (Icysami x Renegaderr, Strangers.)

100 words, Bertie (solo), setting ambiguous

( Turn up the heat! )

Behold!

An easy to digest compilation of all my Whumptober fic from this month. It includes a few bonus stories NOT featured here, with extra special guests Cub Peters and Lorrington King.

I've never done a challenge like this before so frankly I'm very proud I managed to get 20 stories by the end of the month. I'm not used to doing short form writing in fic or original work so it was an interesting challenge forcing myself to stop before I reached the comfort half of Hurt/Comfort.

One thing I'm realising as I work through these Whumptober prompts is that my confidence writing proper hardcore whump is very low. Which is why everything is implication, my favourite way to work.

No. 25: “You’re not delivering a perfect body to the grave.”

Storm | Buried Alive | “They’re not breathing!”

Alternate prompt: Aftermath of Failure
( Algy, 197 words )

No. 26: “Sometimes I get so tired; I don’t even know myself.”

Seeing Double | Working To Exhaustion | “You look awful.”

( Algy&Ginger, 165 words )

No. 27: “You drew stars around my scars; But now I’m bleeding.”

Matches | Scars | “Let me see”
( Algy&Biggles, 53 words )

Some catching up!

I think #7 might have accidentally invented a new challenge category... a 'Biggle' (a fic of exactly 266 words). Also can I just say I was not anticipating writing any Boy Biggles fic for Whumptober and here we are with my second of the month.

No. 6: “Do or die, you’ll never make me; Because the world will never take my heart.”

Recording | Made to Watch | “It should have been me.”

( Biggles, 185 words )

No. 7: " “I paced around for hours on empty; I jumped at the slightest of sounds.”

Alleyway | Radio Silence | “Can you hear me?”

( Algy&Biggles, 266 words )

No. 20: “People don’t change people, time does.”

Blanket | Found Family | “You will regret touching them.”

( Zorotov&Von Stalhein, 505 words )